Sustainability Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

[link] While life continues to slowly emerge from the pandemic bubble, there are lingering issues continuing to challenge us in 2022. In a 2022 trends feature for Forbes , Shayna Harris explores some creative solutions to problems like zero food waste. Curious about what else 2022 may have in store?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There were also signs of hope as coalitions of companies, governments, and civil society, and indigenous peoples groups forced progress on issues such as stopping deforestation , cutting methane , ending c oal use, and boosting zero-emissions vehicles. That group is expected to report back in 2022. As a former senior U.N.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Dutch carbon tax, that would cover emissions from producing hydrogen using methane, is expected to reach €125 ($137) per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2030. Dutch research organization TNO estimates that one ton of hydrogen produced from methane leads to 10 tons of CO2 equivalent.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 billion (13.3

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

To address this challenge, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) needs to finalize the Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation reforms it proposed in April 2022. It is vital for organizations that support climate disclosure to publicly welcome the final rule upon its release. Contact Sean Hackett via email. to learn more.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It seems to have made some progress: On its website, Barclays says emissions related to projects it finances dropped by 32 percent between 2020 and 2022. A report from Rainforest Action Network found that Barclays was the European Union’s largest funder of oil and gas projects between 2016 and 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Japanese knotweed removal industry generates thousands of tonnes of plant waste every year which is consigned to landfill sites where it either regrows or decays, giving off harmful gases such as methane. A couple of years back we set to work developing a method of converting knotweed rhizome excavated from the ground into biochar.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. VERGE 2022 Conference. VERGE 2022 Conference.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables. “We

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. On June 8, 2022, just such an explosion at the Freeport LNG export plant in Texas released a 450-foot-high fireball , shuttering the plant for nine months.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

Freshwater City site after the wastewater disposal well was plugged on Exxon’s property in April 2022. But he eventually resigned from the commission in December 2022 after coming to believe that the state was selecting orphaned well sites for restoration using state funds based on political favors for well-connected landowners.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Other problematic sources of air pollution include methane, which produces hazardous ground-level ozone that is linked to health conditions such as lung damage, chest pain , and exacerbated respiratory diseases. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 exposure from 10 micrograms per square meter to just 5.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

A microbe is a microscopic organism that “eats something and produces something,” Cemvita Factory CEO Moji Karimi explains. What’s up next in 2022? If you said no, Greentown Houston member Cemvita Factory is here to change your mind. Its team is leveraging the powers of microbes and synthetic biology to fight climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive. July 19, 2022. A “Watershed in Pennsylvania’s Narrative Around Fracking”.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This immense food waste not only leads to millions facing food insecurity, but the decomposition of this waste leads to the release of methane which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Various research organizations present varying figures, but all point to a boom in demand for this novel protein. between 2022 to 2029.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The organization that paid for the ad, and dozens of similar Facebook ads so far in 2022, was set up to spread pro-oil propaganda on behalf of the Alberta government. The Alberta government budgeted an estimated $159 million for the Canadian Energy Centre, along with “deficit and debt reduction,” in its 2022 Fiscal Plan.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lem is president-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, an advocacy and research organization which helped organize doctors, nurses and public health advocates to make the advertising complaint. More Facebook ads included in the complaint. Source: CAPE.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 15, 2023

This includes EDF’s work on methane, emerging technologies such as hydrogen and CCS, decarbonizing electricity, and moving beyond gas and other fossil fuels. Primary activities include: Advise on the development of programmatic and strategic directions for work related to the global energy transition across the organization.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2022 Shell spent around 220 million euros ($240 million) on this type of advertising, according to AdWeek. Securing the PR account would be the latest significant contract between Havas and Shell, following the acquisition of Shell’s lucrative global strategic media buying account in 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James Black History event on February 2, 2022. Two days before RISE St. Sharon Lavigne at a RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2021

California state law (SB 1383) takes effect January 1, 2022, requiring the majority of homes and businesses in the area to recycle all food and yard waste in their yard debris carts. Some experts estimate as much as 40% of landfill mass is made up of food waste. The process is nothing new to Republic Services.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

This pad appears to be the first of its kind in Pennsylvania to go through a formal permitting process for the practice, which is gaining prominence throughout the Keystone State, home to hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells and rich methane stores. Per the DEP, the well pad was placed on “inactive status” for that duration.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Tanker at the dock at Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, on April 12, 2022. Tax subsidies change officials’ minds In August 2022, one month after Venture Global submitted the CP2 application to the LDEQ, the U.S. Credit: Julie Dermansky But it wasn’t just about money.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Coordinated with Clean Creatives, a climate campaign meant to pressure the advertising industry, and the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, the letter was organized and signed by a group of leading scientists including Jason Box, Astrid Caldas, Peter Gleick, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Michael Mann, Kate Marvel, and Katharine Wilkinson.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022. ” Credit: Screenshot from formal testimony to the PUC on April 22, 2022. Meanwhile, NW Natural also ran an ad campaign to promote “renewable natural gas,” or RNG, which is methane captured from landfills and animal feedlots.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Spears, founder of the Climate Cabinet, a national climate organization dedicated to winning elections, saw this challenge as a new project. Though one 2022 study found that renters are more likely to have electric appliances than homeowners, some 15 million renters like Spears move into an apartment connected to gas. So she got to it.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. .

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. It’s tough to pin down the meaning of all this chemistry. Others warm it.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It is therefore tragic that organizations claiming to be champions for a sustainable future unwittingly promote the continued use of fossil fuel through their opposition to nuclear energy. Spurred by the Fukushima accident, these forces pushed Angela Merkel to phase out nuclear energy by 2022 – the so-called Energiewende.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

When it evaporates, it’s methane. You can’t breathe methane. Roishetta Ozane, speaking in 2022 against another proposed LNG export project. “It will literally freeze anything it comes into contact with and it’s going to float on the water. It will kill you.” I just wanted to get to the root of the problem.”

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. In March 2022, Point Lay became the first town in Alaska to declare a climate emergency , acknowledging the threat to their existence. Henry asked.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbonova Corp (Calgary, Canada) utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of applied research. Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y.,

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 . Methane and Superfund. -$15 Part 1 (First 3 years or 2022-2024). Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. Entity would be a nonprofit organization and not under the direct purview of the federal government.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite Dye’s repeated contact, Senior Assistant Attorney General Jason Jones confirmed in a September 2022 email to DeSmog that “there was no additional…DOJ work on this issue.” link] — Breach Collective (@breachcollectiv) May 17, 2022. But Jones declined to elaborate on why no further action was taken.

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